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Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era

Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

By: Ignacio Apella,Rafael Rofman,Helena Rovner

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Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era

Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

By: Ignacio Apella,Rafael Rofman,Helena Rovner

Uruguay faces medium- and long-term challenges associated with two global megatrends: population aging and technological change. These two megatrends have been developing for some time, but policy responses have been late or inadequate in many cases. Trying to delay them--by promoting higher fertility or enforcing restrictions on the adoption of new technologies--would probably be ineffective but also ill-advised, as these trends are generating important opportunities to increase production and welfare. The objective of this book is to identify these opportunities, as well as the challenges that population aging and technological change pose for the Uruguayan economy and to determine how they can be addressed through better-designed public policies, with a focus on the development of new skills that increase workers’ productivity.

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The Accordion in the Americas

Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!

By: Helena Simonett

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The Accordion in the Americas

Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco, and More!

By: Helena Simonett

An invention of the Industrial Revolution, the accordion provided the less affluent with an inexpensive, loud, portable, and durable "one-man-orchestra" capable of producing melody, harmony, and bass all at once. Imported from Europe into the Americas, the accordion with its distinctive sound became a part of the aural landscape for millions of people but proved to be divisive: while the accordion formed an integral part of working-class musical expression, bourgeois commentators often derided it as vulgar and tasteless. This rich collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneon and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde. Contributors are María Susana Azzi, Egberto Bermúdez, Mark DeWitt, Joshua Horowitz, Sydney Hutchinson, Marion Jacobson, James P. Leary, Megwen Loveless, Richard March, Cathy Ragland, Helena Simonett, Jared Snyder, Janet L. Sturman, and Christine F. Zinni.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252094328

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9780252094323

Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era

Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

By: Ignacio Apella,Rafael Rofman,Helena Rovner

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Managing the Impacts of Population Aging and Technological Change in Uruguay

By: Ignacio Apella,Rafael Rofman,Helena Rovner

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Skills and the Labor Market in a New Era

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The Accordion in the Americas

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